President Michel Sleiman: You have to resign immediately

[Greg Davis]

Originally Posted by Fakhr eddine 1618

If he is planning to have a kitleh wataniyyeh form all regions and sects, then you may come and tell me "what's wrong with it"?

However, having an objective to come and reduce the power of only one team, this won't be consencus anymore

Why doesn't he support my political ambitions if it does not differ. At least, everybody knows who we are and form where we got our strength. As for him, I still didn't know how he convinced US, Syria, Saudi and Egypt to become President that he is their man

It is any lebanese citizens' right to form a political party.
If gms wishes to maximise on his position of influence as a former general and curent president, good luck to him, others before him have done so, including gma.
it is the people who ultimately decide who represents them in parliament , not gms, gma, harriri, geagea, or jumbi

[elias-aj]

Originally Posted by sanfour

a parliamentary block at equal distance from all.

Securing and running a parliamentary block at equal distance from all is useless.

It may become interesting if it manages to create bridges between the other political blocks in the interest of the country.

This can not be achieved but by a person who has the stature of former president Chehab.

With all due respect, President Sleimane has not the stature of Chehab...

[CedarLb]

Because Michel Sleiman is a consensual president who seems to need a "national" parliamentary bloc,
it'd be fair if he proposes one candidate in every single electoral district in Lebanon.

He'd gather a "patriotic" bloc that counts more than 20 MPs.

[coralie]

Originally Posted by Greg Davis

It is any lebanese citizens' right to form a political party.
If gms wishes to maximise on his position of influence as a former general and curent president, good luck to him, others before him have done so, including gma.
it is the people who ultimately decide who represents them in parliament , not gms, gma, harriri, geagea, or jumbi

Michel Soleiman is NOT any lebanese citizen he is the LEBANESE PRESIDENT . can you see the difference ?

If GMS want to maximise on his position and work to have more influence let him start gaining back his presidential SALA7IYET first . let him do it as a president who has real powers not by playing small forming palementary blocks like any parti leader for GOD sake he is the president let him act based on that .

the people choose their MPs the MPs choose the PRESIDENT who is suppose to be for all not take part in the game to "insure" his position or increase his powers . His powers should be protected and given by the constitution unfortunatly after Taef his powers are reduced to nearely nothing .

[GMA forever]

Originally Posted by sanfour

this is becoming ridiculous, cursing anyone who is not sitting in GMA's lap
will not help. and accusing your president of being a Saudi puppet without
any proof just because there may be some candidates who will support
him, will not help either. why then do you blame people for accusing
Aoun of being an Iranian puppet?

He He if this you call cursing, you didn't see anything yet. Noone is asking for GMS to sit in GMA's lap, but we don't want him to sit in anybody else's lap too.
President Slayman was not elected as president because he has popular support, President Slayman was elected because he was supposedly a neutral and at the same distance from everyone.
I don't care what people accuse GMA, I am with freedom of speach and people can take any position they like as far as I am concerned.
But President Slayman was where he was in the last 10 years due to the syrians only, and now if he wants to join the bandwagon of Hariri, it will be logical for us to deduce that he changed his syrian horse to a saudi one, no?Unless you don't believe that hariri is a saudi puppet, then we have a big problem here.

[coralie]

Originally Posted by sanfour

a parliamentary block at equal distance from all.

yeah right !!!!!!!!!!!!!

seems you missed the part in my post saying i dont believe there is something called neutral !

[Youchka]

Guys guys relax. Let Sleiman run his own lists, so what. If you think there are neutral people today in Lebanon, you'd be completely naive. The people who today will vote for FPM, will vote for FPM no matter who is facing FPM, same goes for LF, Kataeb... Sleiman's "independent" candidates will be for example Michel Murr. MM will get the votes that belong to him, whether he is with FPM or Kataeb or backed by president. Same goes to the other candidates like Khoury, Hawat or anyone who will be udner the President's wing.

I would love to see Sleiman backing candidates actually, it will be 3assfourein bi hajar for us, not only rendering the 14 feb losers more meaningless than what they are now, but also, Sleiman will know his REAL value and size, ou khalle kell wahad ya3rif hajmo.

[sanfour]

Originally Posted by coralie

yeah right !!!!!!!!!!!!!

seems you missed the part in my post saying i dont believe there is something called neutral !

i didn't miss it, coralie. what the president meant is neither 8 march
nor 14 march and that does not necessarily mean neutral. it is something
similar to what president Fouad Chehab did back in the 60s.
anyway, that's not the worst case scenario.....the worst case scenario
is if the votes are split between him and the FPM lists so that neither
of them can win and the 14 Feb. vote in one block for their lists and win.

[orange infection]

Originally Posted by barid

And why is that?

till now , i haven't heard of any list for the president in bsharri , or akkar , or chouf or aley
what a coincidence , gms's lists do not appear where the christian opposition will lose

[sanfour]

Originally Posted by orange infection

till now , i haven't heard of any list for the president in bsharri , or akkar , or chouf or aley
what a coincidence , gms's lists do not appear where the christian opposition will lose

personally, i didn't hear of any GMS lists anywhere yet.